[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 12 Feb Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Doug Winter wrote:
> > Most languages explicitly avoid this problem by only allowing named
> > variables, and using strict scoping rules.  These give the languages are
> > more verbose "narrative" quality that makes it far more maintainable.
> 
> Exactly as you do in perl with the use of the "Use strict" pragma.
> 
> I don't know of any serious perl coder who would write anything without 
> it.

Yes.  This doesn't avoid the implied variable business though.  $_ and
@_ and friends.

> > If you have to put a line of comments for every line of code to
> > explain what it means, then that code is bad.
> 
> And this is relevant how? Nobody is advocating that.

I may be misunderstanding Alain's position, however this is what he
wrote:

Alain Williams previously wrote:
> Individual statements can be hard to understand in some languages -
> this is  +where perl can be difficult - but a comment saying *what* it
> does is all that is needed.  +If you need to change it, you take the
> time to work out *how* it does it.

doug.

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